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What Romeu Zema said about develop a local mining and processing chain for rare earths

About: develop a local mining and processing chain for rare earths

Romeu Zema: But basically that's it.

Romeu Zema: The short-, medium-, and long-term plans, how to deal with the environmental issue and how to deal with processing, which we know is one of the big problems of rare earths today.

Ninety percent of rare earths processing today is done in China.

Romeu Zema · 19:59

Romeu Zema: So how are you going to do that?

Romeu Zema: For the production of the oxides, which is already a big advantage, and for the production of the end product there, which has military applications, applications for artificial intelligence — a lot, because of chips and so on.

Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence

Reports dependence on China for processing but does not propose a concrete measure.

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